# Use Gem Ember Rails or run Ember separately

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/use-gem-ember-rails-or-run-ember-separately/9347>\
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**Created:** [December 24, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/use-gem-ember-rails-or-run-ember-separately/9347 "2015-12-24T11:11:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikram7](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/vikram7/32/12393_2.png) [@vikram7](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/vikram7)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/use-gem-ember-rails-or-run-ember-separately/9347/5 "2016-01-25T19:03:12Z")

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This is very app specific, but broadly speaking, I think separating your Rails and Ember concerns will be valuable regardless. Rails serves as your API and Ember on the client side. [Here](http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/ember-cli-or-ember-rails-for-and-ember-app-in-a-rails-web-app/7398) is another discussion about this.

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